Paul Lambert is hopeful that Christian Benteke will be able to play a part of Aston Villa’s Premier League match against Tottenham this weekend. Benteke injured his hip against Norwich in September and has since been ruled out, but has recently been called up to the Belgium side, he sat on the bench for the two qualifiers against Croatia and Wales.

“He trained the last couple of days with Belgium and was on the bench which indicates that he felt pretty good,” said Lambert.

“Our medical team spoke to theirs – as you do with every player – and everyone seems to have come back not too bad.

“I don’t know if he’ll be ready for Tottenham. He’ll know himself how he’s feeling. All I know is he was on the bench last night.

“He trained for a couple of days and hadn’t had a reaction, but that might change, I’ll just wait and see.” – Paul Lambert

Since Benteke’s injury, Kozak and Helenius have both led the line, together they’ve only contributed 1 goal to the team. I expect Kozak to start against Tottenham, but to be replaced by Benteke in the second half.

He is billy big bollocks that’s why. Without him we would be playing Bournemouth away this weekend.

He signed a new contract with us though didn’t he?

He will leave us, its inevitable, but until then I will be 100 percent behind Billy Big Bollocks as he is the best centre forward we have seen in claret and blue in decades – so I suggest you enjoy him while he’s in B6 and stop speculating that he’s upsetting the dressing room

Does anyone know why there are no fixtures in middle sat of nov to accommodate a poxy England friendly. What the fuck is all that about who gives a shit it’s a 150 yrs since fa. It should stand for fuck all coz that’s all we ever get

I mean come on, players like Osvaldo, Ramirez, Coutinho have all claimed the EPL is far more physical than Serie A, and then Osvaldo and Tevez have both claimed that Serie A’s more technical. There’s a big difference between the two and the game between Arsenal and Napoli showed that as Napoli’s one of the quicker teams and they were outrun in every sense of the word.

I have no doubt Kozak needs time and will come good, just like Spurs with all of their new players, Chelsea with the likes of Eto’o, and so on.

I don’t doubt that, but that’s a good reason why he was bought. Being physical just like being pacy against tired legs is a huge plus that Kozak brings. He does the whole starting thing well at the International level, but he’s typically an impact club sub.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Benteke has a “must start every game if fit” clause in his contract.
Either way, if he’s fit, he’ll start, imo.
He’s not an impact player and needs to grind defences down; something he excels at.
Even if I were big enough, I’d hate to be opposing him.

Guess he could be a late bloomer, but he’s never scored more than 11 goals in a season in the 2nd Division of the Czech Republic league, though his time at Lazio was as a impact sub, while Benteke’s first starting season he scored 13, then 6, then 16 then to us with 19. Kozak’s most likely going to continue being the impact player he always has been.

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